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Neenan admitted criminal damage before magistrates, but denied common assault and racially aggravated harassment until the opening day of a trial.

He then pleaded guilty to those offences, but continued to deny threatening to destroy property and endanger life, a charge which was dropped by prosecutors, and related to him allegedly threatening to burn the store down.

Neenan has six previous convictions for 11 offences - starting in 1999 and mostly committed in Ireland - for drugs, violence and public disorder offences.

Last May he was handed an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for producing cannabis, possessing cannabis and abstracting electricity.

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Just five days later he was sentenced for breaching the order by possessing controlled drugs and handed an additional 40 hours of unpaid work.

He completed a Drug Rehabilitation Requirement, but did just 10 hours of unpaid work, which Judge Thomas Teague, QC, said was "abysmal as a response".

Neenan admitted now having breached the suspended sentence for a second time.

Jason Smith, defending, said his client's best mitigation was that he "had the sense to plead guilty".

He said it was "a very unpleasant incident", when he was "clearly affected, be it by alcohol, be it by drugs, or be it by the combination of both".